The Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Taguig ordered national candidates, political parties, and party-list groups to remove their campaign materials posted outside the designated common poster areas.

Election Officer Edgar Feliciano Aringay issued a notice on the removal of the prohibited campaign materials related to the May 12 national and local elections.

“In view of the foregoing, you are hereby ordered to remove the campaign materials, posted outside the Comelec designated common poster area and in public places where posting of campaign materials is prohibited regardless of whoever was responsible for posting the same before February 11, 2025,” he said.

Automated counting machine demonstration in Barangay Hagonoy, Taguig (Photo from Comelec-Taguig Facebook page)

He warned that “failure to do so will give rise to the presumption that you/your party were responsible for posting the said materials.”

The campaign period for senator and party-list groups started on Feb. 11 and will last until May 10.

Meanwhile, the campaign period for candidates for congressmen, and provincial, city and municipal positions will start on March 28.

Comelec-Taguig cited Section 29 of Comelec Resolution 11086, which states that “all prohibited forms of election propaganda shall be immediately removed, or caused to be removed, by said candidate or party at least seventy-two (72) hours before the start of the campaign period. The prohibited forms of propaganda contemplated in this Section include any names, images, logos, brands, insignias, initials, and other forms of identifiable graphical representations on any public structures or places as enumerated in Section 8 (f) of these guidelines placed by incumbent officials.”

Under Section 8, prohibited acts are “to post, display or exhibit any election campaign or propaganda material outside of authorized common poster areas, in public places, or in private properties without the consent of the owner.”